Culture
Six synagogues in Lithuania listed as protected cultural heritage
Six synagogues in Lithuania have been included into the list of monuments protected by the state, BNS reports. […]
Jewish
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreign minister meets with Jewish organisations in New York
During the session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 2 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with heads and representatives of major world and American Jewish organisations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
Culture
Culture
Holocaust by Bullets exhibit at Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad – In Unum – 10 Years of Investigations, from October 1 to November 22, 2015. […]
Global LT
Holocaust in Lithuania commemorated at embassy in London
On 24 September, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as members of parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the victims of the Shoah in Lithuania, the Embassy reports. […]
Culture
Vilna Yiddish literary reading circle invites to its next meeting
After a successful experiment at the first session it was decided that each week’s session would start with an intriguing article from a different prewar Vilna Yiddish newspaper. In addition to reading from the photocopies provided, participants will be able to view the original newspaper. The session, which lasts an hour-and-a-half total, will then move on to the literary text being read. This Sunday the circle will start reading a humorous text by Der Túnkeler, “The Dark One,” pseudonym of Joseph Tunkel (1881 – 1949), a Litvak Yiddish humorist born in Bobruisk, now in Belarus. […]
Culture
Kaunas undertakes to clean up old Jewish cemetery
The municipality of Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas is beginning to clean up an old Jewish cemetery in Žaliakalnis, with identification and inventory of the graves planned at the start of the project, the municipality said on Thursday. […]
Society
Politics
Lithuanian politicians pay tribute to genocide victims in Paneriai
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Government Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis on Tuesday paid tribute to victims of the Jewish genocide at the Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius. […]
Society
Lithuania pays tribute to rescuers of Jews from Holocaust
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday awarded 47 people with Life Saving Crosses for saving Jews from the Nazis during World War Two. The majority of them were awarded posthumously. […]
Society
Lithuanian president to award rescuers of Jews
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Tuesday, the eve of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews, award 47 people who saved Jewish people from the Nazis during World War Two. […]
Society
Names of Holocaust victims to be read for 5th time in Lithuania
The names of Holocaust victims will be read publicly in several Lithuanian cities and towns on Tuesday, September 22, on the eve of the Lithuanian Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Names initiative is being held in Vilnius for the fifth time now and this will be the first time when lists of Vilnius ghetto prisoners will be read at two locations: in the courtyard of the ghetto library and at the Skalvija movie theater. Residents of Jonava, Molėtai, Švėkšna and Jurbarkas will take turns reading the names of Jews murdered in their towns. […]
Society
Society
Foreign minister of Lithuania pays tribute to Sugihara
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Friday attended an informal discussion at the Sugihara House in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, on educational projects, introducing Chiune Sugihara’s achievements, prospects for cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the need to raise general public awareness, in particular amongst young people, on the legacy of Sugihara and other diplomats who saved lives. […]
Culture
The Vilna Yiddish Reading Circle starts 17th season
The Jewish Cultural and Information Center, a partnership project of the Jewish Community of Lithuania and the Vilnius Municipality, is proud to host the 17th annual Vilna Yiddish Reading Circle this season. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM says Israel ‘strategic regional partner’
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said in Israel on Tuesday that the country was a strategic regional partner, expressing hope for future strengthening of the partnership. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM pays tribute to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday. […]
Society
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM going to Israel
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius will on Monday pay an official visit to Israel where he is scheduled to discuss economic cooperation and cooperation with the Jewish Community of Lithuania. […]
Society
Kaunas to commemorate Japanese diplomat Sugihara
Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas will Friday pay tribute to the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who issued visas to rescue thousands of Jews during World War Two. […]